What do it simply can do

Chilli Penugin’s success has been building over the past 10 years and they had finally reached a point that they needed their website to catch up.

There were 2 main goals with the website, create a beautiful engaging, showstopper of a website and create a dealer only ordering area to make life easier.

M:art Design, created a stunning visual concept that is amazing to look at and engages visitors from the first moment they arrive.

Do It Simply insured the functionality and ease of use were top notch. A very large amount of time was taken to discuss and understand Chilli’s current production and sales process. With this information I built a system that made it easy to order for their dealers and kept the process checked and verified by Chilli. I can’t wait to work with them again.

Helping a new business create their first online personality is one of my favourite jobs.

When you are just starting out you do not need to spend 5K + creating a new site. But you do need a site that works, is simple to use, and your potential customers can find.

This project fro Swimwear Pro was a great entry website for their fledgling business. I’m excited to see where Katie takes this and when she is ready to go bigger and bolder, the website is ready for it too.

This is what can be achieved when you combine a great design with technical know-how. The project resulted in a fantastic booking system for 3 holiday lets. Parc Wernol needed to offer a mixture of 3 and 7 day bookings with pricing varying by season. It was also important that if they wanted to run special discount for a week or even days, they could do it. Each property has it’s own pricing, days available, and calendar.

Like many family run businesses everything that Parc Wernol did was by hand. From taking phone calls for questions and payment, to physically writing into a diary who had paid and who was visiting. Not only did this add confusion but it took up a lot of their time that could have been spent working on other parts of their business.

With a beautiful design by m:art and the creation of it by do it simply Parc Wernol have a site that not only attracts more customers but makes their life easier keeping track of who/when and payments.

The partnership that m:art design and I have built is great. He is the visual expert and I can make just about anything he or the client imagines happening, happen.

Yet when Martin approached me with his left/right scroll idea for Bardsey Boat Trips, I wasn’t jumping for joy. But I credit Martin completely on having this vision and pushing me to make it possible. A left to right scrolling website that works on all devices is a pretty tall order, but we did it. And as Bardsey provides incredibly unique boat trips to an island only accessible by Colin (the owner) the site reflects this and stands out.

Along with this we have a bespoke weather widget written just for Bardsey, tide times, and a beautiful historical timeline. It was also important being located in North Wales to insure the site was accessible in both languages.

The first stage in helping Nutritional Shift was getting their online shop back up and running. They had been dealing with problems with their hosting service, an outdated shop, and many other small niggles.

Although we discussed a much bigger project to create a website that resonated with their customers and worked harder for them, this first stage was just getting them back up and running.

Their shop is simple to modify, has small design hints to tie in with their upcoming new branding, and most importantly easy to use for their customers and themselves. Some key features included are international and weight based shipping, automatic printable invoices, and allowing their shipping partners immediate access when an order is placed. Stay tuned for the next phase in a few months time.

Sometimes a project that comes out of nowhere becomes a great opportunity to build a new relationship.

Tuya Technologies had been working closely with Richard from Hirebrand, but now they needed a website for the eminent launch, and they needed it quick. Richard got in touch just before the New Year with a design he needed creating in WordPress.

Tuya was getting ready to launch their new LLC to the world but hadn’t created their website yet. Richard stepped to give them a functional design and I stepped in to create the CMS and site.

As with any new last minute project there were hiccups, but open communication and the ability to work flexibly means a great new partnership was started.

Trying to stand out from the crowd shouldn’t make your website hard to use. When it’s done right you get something beautiful that works. Animation and simplicity can go hand and hand.

Parker SW didn’t want to look like every other builder. They create sympathetic period property and new build renovations. This means an they have an eye for detail and are someone you can trust. The website needed to convey this.

Using a copywriter and taking time to talk to their customers has helped to create a website that not only does this, but is also one of a kind.

Pedalabikeaway, in the Forest of Dean, shows just what is possible with WordPress. Although this site is built on WP and it’s Woocommerce Booking Plugin, the functionality is 100% bespoke.

Working closely with PBA, a booking system was created for a range of bikes that they offer on 1/2 day or daily basis. We flipped things on their head and gave control to the user by allowing them to select dates first to show availability, something the bookings plugin could not do.

We also made it possible to book bikes of the same type but with different sizes without re-entering details. Something that saves the user a good chunk of time.

Along with many other bespoke reporting aspects, and site functionality, we re-created PBA’s current booking form ‘on the fly’. Now they simply print these off ready for the bike hire shop to check in/out bikes for the day.

Small businesses sometimes need to take their web presence 1 step at a time, and this is what Little Ditsy wanted. Myself and m:art design created a shop to showcase Little Ditsy’s handmade items but currently doesn’t allow online purchases. This gives the owner the chance to learn how to manage an online business without the added complication of transactions and stock.

The best thing is that when Little Ditsy is ready to take the next step, the site is ready. This build was created to be future proof, so all of the systems and processes needed to run a full online shopping experience are ready to go.

When you are running a small business it is hard to stay on top of all of your paperwork. Having an online payment and booking system pays back the cost to create it in days.

Ross Rowing Club have always offered simple camping at their large site on the River Wye. Over the past few years the popularity has grown to such an extent that they could’t keep up with the email requests. Over 2 days this simply booking system was created, a SSL certificate installed, and bookings are now being taken with no emailing back and forth. RRC can now concentrate on greeting their campers and making their stay a lovely one.

Ross on Wye Rowing Club was struggling with the website that was built for them a few years ago. Although done on WordPress no one ever figured out how it was done or what to do with it going forward. I stepped in to simplify how they managed the site and to make sure all important information for visitors and members alike was easy to find.

The design was kept clean to really showcase what was going on at the club. Such as the upcoming Regattas and Head Races, Learn to Row courses, and of course the weather.

It is also a one stop shop for all of the latest club news, with newsletter posts, social media, and events.

A booking and payment system was created for the great camping and canoe landing that the club provides. Freeing up some valuable time for members that can now be spent on the water! On top of this, a new payment system was integrated to allow RRC to capitalise on their biggest event of the the year, the Ross Regatta.

When the owners of Abererch Sands starting getting problems with hacking into their 3 year old site, I stepped in to help.

By moving their old bespoke cms over to WordPress it was given increased security and more flexibility with content. Both without any added costs. The website was replicated exactly as it was before, only now on the WP platform.

As I have a close relationship with Martin at m:art design, we tend to build a lot of sites together.

I convinced Martin that building this bespoke design on WP would give greater flexibility going forward, yet maintaining a completely unique look. No WordPress templates for us. Martin supplied some stunning PNGs, thoughts about what he wanted to do, and this site was created.

When I offered to work with Offshore Storage they were very reticent about having to look after a website and its added complications. I wanted to insure that whatever was produced it didn’t add any additional work to their day to day business. The added bonus was that I managed to take some of their routine time wasting issues away in the process.

The sites main goal was to take away some of their unnecessary and unsocialable hour phone calls. This was done by by showing distinct office hours and providing answers to the most common queries on their homepage. Added to this was a simply contact form so that potential customers could still enquire at any time of day. I talked the business owners through setting up their email client to receive the business emails and away they went. They have reported a reduction in phone calls, and a few compliments thrown in on their new site.

Not everyone wants complete control of their website, or the responsibility. For clients like this, sometimes a bespoke CMS is just the answer. They get to pick and choose the pages they want to change, the CMS is much simpler then using a framework, yet there is still infinite possibility.

Using PHP and MySQL the sales and area pages were created to allow updates and additions at any time. The rest of the site is built around a creative use of HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery.

This was another unique design vision by Martin at m.art design. He really wanting something that was stunning on a larger screen, and this definitely stands out. He supplied PSDs to me and a outline of his wants for the site, and this was created.